Re: [PATCH][RFC] Delete export of tty.h to userspace.

From: Karel Zak
Date: Wed Jul 18 2007 - 18:38:36 EST


On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:33:12PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>
> > Robert P. J. Day napsal(a):
> > > given that the entire contents of include/linux/tty.h is contained
> > > within an "#ifdef __KERNEL__", it seems pointless to export it to
> > > userspace, unless there's some kind of need for that header file to
> > > exist in userspace, even if it's empty.
> > >
> > > a quick grep shows that nothing under /usr/include references any
> > > file of the name "tty.h" in any way. thoughts?
> >
> > If we decide to remove the file, I would rather go through
> > deprecation of the file with filing an entry in
> > feature-remove-schedule. There still seems to be some users of the
> > file.
>
> i'm curious -- how did you determine that?

$ grep "tty.h" util-linux/sys-utils/cytune.c
#include <linux/tty.h>

... I'll fix it in util-linux-ng.


Karel

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